Incident #1000746
Carson, Skamania Cty, Washington
Mar 1969
Account
Marvin Morasch and Ed McLarney, Southeast of Bear Creek, and higher up than the tracks on the Durrell property, photographed a single 17" print in the snow. The photo shows four fat, blurred toes and a very wide heel. The same two men are reported (in the special "Bigfoot" edition of the Skamania County Pioneer, summer, 1969) to have four-wheeled as far as they could, then gone off into the mountains, with no man-made tracks of any kind, and there found "bigfoot prints emerging out of a canyon, crossing a snow-covered forest trail, proceeding through a clear-cut and headed toward the Lava Beds." Presumed, although not definite, that track photographed was one of this set.
When
- Observation Date
- MAR 25 1969
- Month
- Mar
- Year
- 1969
- Season
- spring
Where
- State / province
- Washington
- County
- Skamania Cty
- Nearest Town
- Carson
- Direction from Town
- North
- Population of Town
- 400
- Elevation/Altitude
- 20
- Latitude
- 4547--
- Longitude
- 12146--
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- Multiple Sightings Y/N
- Yes
- Related incident id
- 1000475
- Shot Hit
- No
- Track Photo Y/N
- Yes
Witnesses
- Report type
- 2nd person
Setting
- Terrain
- foothill
- Slope
- steep
- Snow Condition
- shallow patches
Source
- Source
- Skamania County Pioneer, Stevenson, Wash., special
- Source Type
- newspaper
- Source Date
- MAR 1969
- Source reliability
- 7
- Incident reliablility
- 8
- Jwg file date
- 1969
- Incident type
- 2
Footprints
- Set of Tracks
- 1
- Footprint Length
- 17.0
- Greates Width
- 8.0
- Heel Width
- 7.0
- Number of Tracks
- many
- Trail Followed Y/N
- Yes
- Trail Ended Naturally Y/N
- Yes
- Track Condition
- fair
- Arc Y/N
- Yes
- Number of Toes
- 4
- Footprint Photo Y/N
- Yes
- Direction of Travel
- Northeast
- Material Tracks Made in
- soft shallow snow
- Foot Shape
- wide
- Remarks
- Single big blob in place where fourth and fifth toes should be. May well be a five-toed foot.
Witness
- Wildlife Familiarity
- considerable
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- sasq. hunting
- Track witnesses
- 2